EditText maxLength property not applied properly when setFilters is used

Question

When I use setFilter method on an EditText to handle special characters, maxLength property is not working as expected. My code is be

Answer 1

while setting maxlenth property of edittext programatically

please show use the code.

Wild Guess: the problem may be that you set the maxLength in the layout. By calling setFilters() this behavior is replace by the one of your Filter.

Solution: use more that one filter or implement the maxLenght behavior in your getFilteredChars() filter.

EDIT: you may want to look at http://developer.android.com/reference/android/text/InputFilter.LengthFilter.html

and for you question in the comment, from the doc:

when the buffer is going to replace the range dstart … dend of dest with the new text from the range start … end of source

so, something like (Pseudo code liveCoding) :

dest.lenght - (dend-dstart) + (end-start)  = new legnth